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Department of Sociology

Colloquia Series 2009-2010


Colloquia 2006-2007   ||   Colloquia 2007-2008   ||   Colloquia 2008-2009   ||   Colloquia 2009-2010

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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009

    "Public Sociology, From the Editor's Desk"

    3:00-4:30 pm

    Pearlman Lounge

    Speaker: Prof. Douglas Hartmann

    Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

    Douglas Hartmann (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997) is Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (University of Chicago Press), and recently published and expanded second edition of Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Pine Forge Press, with Stephan Cornell). Hartmann is co-Principal Investigator of the "American Mosaic Project," an ongoing, multi-method study of race, religion and diversity in the contemprary U.S. funded by the Twin Cities-based Edelstein Family Foundation, and also co-Editor (with Chris Uggen) of Contexts, the ASA publication that brings sociology to broader public influence and attention. Hartmann's own work and comments on race, popular culture, religion, and multiculturalism have been featured in Time magazine, newspapers around the country, and on both Minnesota and National Public Radio. Professor Hartmann received the Midwest Sociological Society's inaugural Early Career Scholarship Award in 2008.


    Free and open to members of campus!

    Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
    The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund


  • Thursday, October 8, 2009

    "IRB Protocols"

    12-1 pm

    Kutz 102

    Speaker: Morgen Sarpeshkar

    Free and open to members of campus!

    Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology


  • Thursday, September 24, 2009

    "Medical Technology & Prolongevity: The Political Economy of Aging"

    3:00-4:30 pm

    Pearlman Lounge

    Speaker: Prof. Bryan Turner

    The Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College

    Turner is professor of social and political thought in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He wrote his first book, Weber and Islam, in 1974 and has since established an international reputation for his work. He has served as dean of the faculty of arts at Deakin University ; as professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge ; and as a professor at the Asia Institute of the University of Singapore . In 2009, he will publish a new book, "Muslims in Singapore ".


    Free and open to members of campus!

    Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
    The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund